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Post by midjd on Feb 17, 2014 21:37:18 GMT -5
My two male cousins (on my dad's side) have five children between them - all with the initials K.K. None of them have a middle initial of K, thankfully! I didn't know you were a Kardashian!
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Feb 17, 2014 21:52:38 GMT -5
My uncle's ex-wife was the daughter of a guy named Don. She was Dawn, her sister, Doncella, and her brother...Paul. Never did figure that reasoning out! That one is easy to figure out. Don was not his father!
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Post by flutterby on Feb 17, 2014 22:09:04 GMT -5
My mom and her siblings (7 or 8 of them) all had first names starting with D and middle names starting with C. I don't know why those initials were significant or if my grandparents just liked them. My own boys have a theme to their names, though that was unintentional on my part, I just happened to love those names. They both have the last names of famous Americans as their first names. It's not really obvious with only two of them. If we'd had a third, the name I'd have picked would have followed the theme (on purpose, but also because I think it'd be an awesome name), and then it would be hard to miss. Most definitely not having a third, though!
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Post by whoisjohngalt on Feb 17, 2014 22:28:26 GMT -5
No "theme" names, my boys have very standard, biblical names. Two out of three do have the same middle name, though. So, of course, they think that EVERYONE has that as a middle name. The fact that their little brother doesn't didn't register with them yet.
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Post by moneymaven on Feb 17, 2014 22:31:21 GMT -5
My sister and I have rhyming names. I hate it, but I love my name. Of course, we were only called "whatever the hell your name is" as children.
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Post by steph08 on Feb 18, 2014 5:58:19 GMT -5
I know Brian/Brianna twins. Also Aaron/Andrew twins that have the same initials.<br><br>my brother and I don't have theme names, thank goodness because both our parents have J names so they could have went with that. But I do have the female version of my grandfather's name and my bro's name was grandpa's middle name. But besides our parents, no one would know that.
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Post by yogiii on Feb 18, 2014 8:16:22 GMT -5
My kids both have a version of my maiden name for their middle name (like Paul/Paula but not that). If I'd had two boys they would have had the same middle name.
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Post by Blonde Granny on Feb 18, 2014 8:25:06 GMT -5
My brother is a JR. and I was born close to Christmas, therefore I have one of the Christmas names. I guess it could have been worse, I almost got tagged with the female version of my Dads name.
And the Jr. thing always did cause confusion.
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Post by CarolinaKat on Feb 18, 2014 8:28:49 GMT -5
The closest thing I got to this was naming my barn cats after herbs.
I do however know a family that the parents happened to have the same initials when they got married, so now all the kids have those initials. You don't really think about it because the names really aren't all that similar, think James, Joseph and Jenna etc... I wouldn't have known it if it hadn't been pointed out to me.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Feb 18, 2014 8:49:29 GMT -5
Had neighbors who were Jim, Jean, kids were Joe, Joy and Jane ( I think but it was a J) and the friggin dog's name was JETT!!
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Post by Regis on Feb 18, 2014 9:36:28 GMT -5
My two male cousins (on my dad's side) have five children between them - all with the initials K.K. None of them have a middle initial of K, thankfully! I didn't know you were a Kardashian! Technically, I'm not. I'm Bruce Jenner.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Feb 18, 2014 10:22:07 GMT -5
My sister and I have themed names: Beth and Amy Jo. Mom was an English teacher and adored Little Women. The Catholic Church wouldn't let her use Beth so I am actually Elizabeth but no one ever used that other than on my Baptism Certificate. My girls have a theme only in that they are named after dead relatives! I was supposed to be Elizabeth but my parents decided it was too long of a name for a tiny baby. They forgot I'd grow.
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Post by milee on Feb 18, 2014 11:01:23 GMT -5
I was very glad DH didn't suggest naming the boys after him. Not only does he have a very English and very (IMHO) nerdy name - both first and middle - but I think being a Jr, III, etc is a tough thing to put on a kid.
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Post by raeoflyte on Feb 18, 2014 11:34:42 GMT -5
Culturally fil's tradition is that the first boy gets his dads name. Fil has a half brother with his same name even, because it was another oldest boy... Not to mention a half dozen cousins with the same name too. Oddly dh wasn't going to be named after fil even if he was a boy-but he has an older half brother with the name and maybe fil didn't like his dad "replacing"him. Fil did ask us to pick up the tradition with ds and we as politely as possible declined. I know it hurt his feelings. Emotions aside, its a really ethnic name and ds is pastey white. Could have been interesting. Sent from my ADR6410LVW using proboards
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Post by CarolinaKat on Feb 18, 2014 11:37:03 GMT -5
I was very glad DH didn't suggest naming the boys after him. Not only does he have a very English and very (IMHO) nerdy name - both first and middle - but I think being a Jr, III, etc is a tough thing to put on a kid.
DH was almost a JR. But then his dad was an ass (giant surprise there *rolls eyes) and he has his mom's last name. I like his mom's last name, it's one of mine now actually. Still it was tough on DH having the same name as his father, his family actually called him by his initials because his maternal grandmother hated his father so much. She refused to call her grandson something that made her angry to say. Out of spite his father calls him by a nickname that he uses, think 'little bob' if the the father goes by bob. Pisses me off to no end considering the way his father treated/treats them. FWIW I like his name, and call him by his given first name (which his father doesn't go by, his father's family does not call him and his mother's family does not call him. He never indicated he was called anything other than that, until I met his family who kepy talking about *initials*. I was like "who the hell is *initials*?"
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Post by teen persuasion on Feb 18, 2014 12:29:24 GMT -5
I never even thought about a "theme." However, there is at tradition that the first son be Joseph Whatever. My ex-FIL was called Joe. My ex and my son were called by their middle names. My oldest grandson is called Joey. I think it's a rather nice way of carrying on the family name without having a lot of Jrs. and Trey's, etc. Yes, Trey is a nickname down here when someone is the III. Yep, my FIL is Joe, DH used his middle name until recently, DS2 uses his middle name. DH found it a pain to explain why he went by his middle name at job interviews, etc., so when we moved to a new area he found it easier just to use his first name. Now I have to remember which one to use to refer to him. When I found out that I was expecting DS5, I considered naming him Quinton (or some variant), since he was number five. I remember in Latin class all the readings about Tertius or Secundus, but those sounded odd. Can you imagine naming your kid Two or Three (in English rather than Latin)?
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Post by Bob Ross on Feb 18, 2014 12:48:43 GMT -5
WTF are "themed names"?
Is that like when you name your kids Bacon and Egg or something?
*ponders this*
Okay, well if I have kids, they will definitely be named Bacon and Egg. Bacon will be the cool one. Egg will just sit in the corner and blankly stare into space.
I have spoken!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2014 12:55:18 GMT -5
I was very glad DH didn't suggest naming the boys after him. Not only does he have a very English and very (IMHO) nerdy name - both first and middle - but I think being a Jr, III, etc is a tough thing to put on a kid.
Alastair Neville?
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Post by Sam_2.0 on Feb 18, 2014 13:00:00 GMT -5
Our girls' names start with the same letter but it wasn't intentional. I don't really care for rhyming names or any other naming conventions. My sister's kids all have J.A. initials except for the littlest is A.A. My BIL has J.A. initials so all his kids were named after him.
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Post by Tiny on Feb 18, 2014 14:14:28 GMT -5
I was very glad DH didn't suggest naming the boys after him. Not only does he have a very English and very (IMHO) nerdy name - both first and middle - but I think being a Jr, III, etc is a tough thing to put on a kid.
Alastair Neville? Albert, I bet. Bertie or Albie is so cute... but I, too, don't think I'd saddle a kid with Albert as a first name -- UNLESS i had some suitale "nickname" or a middle name he was gonna go by. One of the guys I knew in HS was called "Butch" but his name was really Albert (jr or III or IV or something in a proud long line of Alberts). When he was 18 he went thru the process of having his name changed.... and managed to get rid of both the nickname AND first name.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2014 14:16:58 GMT -5
Those were the most "English names" that popped into my head.
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Post by Tiny on Feb 18, 2014 14:22:21 GMT -5
I like the idea of carrying on family names (where kids get middle names or first names based on ancestors) but I'll admit the Jr/III is pretty awful. I guess when I think of Themed names it's more than just every one having the same initials... so something like Mom and Dad are Joanne and Joe and the kids are Josephine, Joe JR, Jonah, Joellen, and little Joanna. (know a family like this - they all dress the same for holidays and family pictures. It's a tiny bit scary). I don't get the whole Christopher/Christine thing... maybe because one side of the family is perpetuating the Francis/Frances thing for the oldest boy/girl in a long line of Francis/Frances going back into the dark ages. Seems confusing and contrived. I'm sure it was cute and clever for the first generation. The Brian/Brianna thing isn't so bad the names atleast sound different and they could get shortened to sound different Bry and Bree.
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Post by imawino on Feb 18, 2014 14:23:22 GMT -5
I was very glad DH didn't suggest naming the boys after him. Not only does he have a very English and very (IMHO) nerdy name - both first and middle - but I think being a Jr, III, etc is a tough thing to put on a kid.
Alastair Neville? Love it. I'm guessing Graham. (Graeme?)
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Post by chiver78 on Feb 18, 2014 14:23:45 GMT -5
my dad and his siblings all had either Joseph or Marie as middle names, and it got all f'd up when they moved to the States in the 60s. my grandparents misunderstood the directions to fill out the immigration forms - last name first. as in, Last, First Middle. they just wrote all the names in reverse - Last, Middle First - so all 7 were either Joseph for Marie on their green cards. one uncle went by Joe at work, dad and the other uncle go by their "middle" names. all my aunts go by their "middle" names, but they are all back in Canada anyway - where their names are registered correctly.
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Post by imawino on Feb 18, 2014 14:35:12 GMT -5
Although to be clear - I think the name Graham is very british, but I don't think it's nerdy. I like it.
Racking my brain to come up with other British-sounding names. Winston? Alfie?
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Feb 18, 2014 14:42:12 GMT -5
I went to school with triplets. Tim, Tom and Ted
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Post by swamp on Feb 18, 2014 14:45:33 GMT -5
Although to be clear - I think the name Graham is very british, but I don't think it's nerdy. I like it. Racking my brain to come up with other British-sounding names. Winston? Alfie? Reginald.
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Post by cael on Feb 18, 2014 14:48:56 GMT -5
I know Melissa/Melinda twins - Missy and Mindy. So cutesy!! lol. My 4 nephews all have names starting with A, but they're good, normal names. My poor DH has a long-ass, unpronounceable Greek first name (he goes by a nickname) and he hated having it growing up. Luckily he has no desires to name any future son of ours after himself, even though I like his name!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2014 14:53:55 GMT -5
All of DH's children (3) have unisex names that end with the same sound. It wasn't intentional. He just gravitates to that ending for names and it didn't occur to him that the name was common for the other gender.
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